Check that you have it in both 802.11b and 802.11g. I'm not sure what
the default mode is, but it is possible to make the WRT54g work only in
802.11g mode, in which case, the SB1, which only speaks 802.11b, won't
be able to connect at all.
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Or rather, I can connect but there is no sound.
I have SlimServer up and running on one of my computers with
IP:192.168.0.3
On another computer with IP:192.168.0.2 I can point Mediaplayer or VLC
to 192.168.0.3:9000/stream.mp3 and listen to my lovely music and select
songs via my browser on
You might want to visit and vote for this bug/enhancement request...
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1740
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Hi,
Is there a list anywhere of which features / bugfixes were implemented
in which version of slimserver?
I tried updating from 5.1.1 to 6.2.1, but found a couple of (for me)
showstopping problems, regarding playlist handling and performance. I'm
now idly considering whether I should try one
It appears to be failing at trying to establish a connection with the
router, the logs don't show a failed connection as it doesn't appear to
be getting that far! The Wireless router is being used as a DHCP Server
and I've added the complete range into the firewall just to make sure
it isn't
mortod Wrote:
But if the PC has woken due to WOL from the SB, it then goes into
standby just 2 minutes after the SB playing is stopped - not 15
minutes.
That is pretty odd.. I wonder if it is related to my display never
going into standby when I get WOL from SB..
Maybe the windows power
It does sound a bit to me like the wireless router is trying to give
them the same IP address, which would explain why only one can connect
to the network at a time. Have you tried forcing the second SB to a
static IP outside the range of your DHCP allocation - so something like
192.168.0.300,
dennitzio Wrote:
Ideas?
Call Linksys. They *can* help you.
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trebejo wrote:
Did you maybe put the --logfile switch in your start script? That's
something that people usually don't wipe out in an upgrade/reinstall.
Eh... did I really do that?
I'm on a Mac. I just click and grin. :)
Don't you think it might have been a good idea to mention that in
Hello,
I know that this might seem like sacrelidge to some of you but now that
I have converted our CD collection to FLAC my wife has some concerns
with portablity. She understands the conversion and likes the
Squeezebox but wants our collecton to be more portable (ie. move to the
car, use when
Siduhe Wrote:
It does sound a bit to me like the wireless router is trying to give
them the same IP address, which would explain why only one can connect
to the network at a time. Have you tried forcing the second SB to a
static IP outside the range of your DHCP allocation - so something
Many threads on this. for example
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20672highlight=flac2mp3
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Hi Everybody,
With a music library of 600GB that is still growing, I finally made my
decision to go for a dedicated RAID5/NAS solution to store my files. I
find that handling all those external harddrives is just too much
clutter, and the RAID5 configuration will give some
timjon wrote:
Hi,
Is there a list anywhere of which features / bugfixes were implemented
in which version of slimserver?
I tried updating from 5.1.1 to 6.2.1, but found a couple of (for me)
showstopping problems, regarding playlist handling and performance. I'm
now idly considering
Marc Sherman wrote:
trebejo wrote:
Did you maybe put the --logfile switch in your start script? That's
something that people usually don't wipe out in an upgrade/reinstall.
Eh... did I really do that?
I'm on a Mac. I just click and grin. :)
Don't you think it might have been a good idea
I've just been putting FLAC tags on various files, and ran into
difficulties with the database. Seems ok now after various deletions of
database, rescans, etc. All on a small library so that I could check
things easily.
But in the course of doing this I had database inconsistencies quite
Robin Bowes wrote:
(S)he did:
If you know the answer, please ease my mind and remind me of how I
managed to relocate slimserver.log. I'm running a Mac, OS 10.4.latest,
fwiw.
Whoops, I'm an idiot. Sorry about that.
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Before raising a bug report, upgrade to the latest 6.2.2 candidate build
- this contains all the latest bugfixes to the 6.2 code. (The only
reason it hasn't been released yet is that they're still ironing out a
wireless connection bugs with the firmware).
You could even try the latest 6.5 build.
I use to have a perl job I wrote to transcode my FLAC to mp3 to use on
my iPod.
However recently I started using jriver's Media Center for syncing my
iPod and it handles on-the-fly transcoding of FLAC to mp3 for the iPod
(even uses lame). Sure the sync time takes a lot longer however once
you
30 here. Time to start wearing sensible clothes and reading real
newspapers. I'm also making lists of things to shout at kids when they
stray onto my lawn.
Nah, just make it up as you go along: the real art is to be able to
mumble and yell at the same time, so it doesn't really matter what you
See http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=102554#post102554
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I've read this thread and others concerning the use of URLSnooper 2 and
have found it useful for a number of streaming sites. One I don't seem
to be able to solve is streamed audio from
http://www.702.co.za/onair/tunein/tunein.asp. The page in question has
a LISTEN NOW! javascript popup
Robin Bowes Wrote:
In the end, it's a trade off - cost vs. time invested. If you buy and
off-the-shelf NAS solution, it will likely be more expensive but you
will not have to spend much time getting it working. With a custom
solution, it will be cheaper but you'll have to spend time
I have just purchased a ReadyNAS NV which is running SlimServer 6.2.1.
In the Music folder I have both mp3's and also a couple of reasonably
large playlists which include my favourite songs. Trouble is on
rescanning any entries that are in the playlist files are being doubled
up.
How can I get
danco Wrote:
I had just thought of that answer, and was going to suggest it to you.
I've just found (using the Help Viewer and looking for Spotlight) a
document indicating that most of the Library folder is not searched.
That's remarkable. I would actually insist on that as one of the
I've had a good experience with the ReadyNAS NV. Gives good performance
over GigE. Setup was straightforward. Good feature set.
I did have some networking issues on first setup, but it turned out to
be a problem with my router handling the 'burstiness' of the NAS
traffic. Solution
I voted for this as well. Radio (audio) is the best way to enjoy
baseball. This would be a fantastic enhancement, and a sure way to sell
some Squeezeboxes to baseball fans.
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Hi again,
thanks for all your answers. I did think about DIY, too, but at the
moment I have very little free time, so I decided not to go that way...
Hearing about the problems of the ReadyNAS gives now me some doubt
again. The whole point of buying the ReadyNAS would be to save some
trouble and
Sensible suggestions, but I tend not to like using beta programs.
At this point I was wondering if anyone else had similar problems.
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Amen, to that, Fuzzy. Other baseball fans have told me they'd subscribe
to MLBTV, where you can *watch* feeds of every game, if the price were a
bit lower.
I tell 'em that no matter *how* low the price falls, I will stick with
GameDay audio. There's nothing like listening to a radio broadcast
Any idea what the streaming technology is this year? They've used Real
in the past, but I thought I'd read where they'd signed a new deal.
Can't recall who the provider was, or what formats the streams would be
in. That would make a big difference in LOE for the SN.
...I just realised that the prices listed for the ReadyNAS NV at the
German distributor's site are *without* VAT. So this means that the
empty unit costs 800 Euros, not 688. Ouch...
What makes the huge price difference between the Terastation Pro and
the ReadyNAS NV?
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Any idea what the streaming technology is this year?
Answering my own question:
http://www.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/help/faq_system_requirements.jsp
Looks like WMA.
That's good news as far as SN feasibility.
But bad news for my idea of tuning in via the Nokia 770 with
You may want to spend some time reading the posts on the Bufallo forum
vs. the Infrant forum. Quite a difference and it is what made me
choose first the X6, then follow that up with an NV. I have had 0
issues with my units.
My NV has been up for over 4 weeks, running SS non-stop. I do not
danco Wrote:
Sensible suggestions, but I tend not to like using beta programs.
Its a reasonable position. Also consider that with the promotion of
software from beta to golden often being affected more by schedule
and external dependencies (and not necessarily bug find/fix rates, bug
totals,
I have a 1GB Terastation connected to a SlimServer on an old EPIA Eden
based machine. I want the later as I use AlienBBC an awful lot.
The Terastation has been fine for me so far, speed is more than
adequate. - it can happily stream to Slim server, Twonky server (for a
netgear MP101) and video
Please don't misinterpret my post. Installation and configuration was a
breeze. And performance is good. This is a very slick product.
It /is/ technology. There is a lot to potentially go wrong, and it has
to get along with other gear. Most of the support threads on the
Infrant forums
Jetlag Wrote:
You may want to spend some time reading the posts on the Bufallo forum
vs. the Infrant forum. Quite a difference and it is what made me
choose first the X6, then follow that up with an NV. I have had 0
issues with my units.
My NV has been up for over 4 weeks, running SS
I've had a ReadyNAS 600 that I bought without drives last August. I
populated it with four 320GB Western Digital WD3200JD drives, giving me
about 872 GB of RAID5 storage. After some initial strife getting the
drives installed and set up the way I wanted (mostly my own fault) and
one failed
andreas Wrote:
hello...
cvj wrote:
I have encountered a strange anomaly using the remote.
If I am playing an album - say track 1 - and I want to change to
track
4 using my remote, here is what happens:
Selecting track 4 (using the DOWN button) then clicking the ADD
button - a
Thanks for the encouragement to use 6.2.2. It is maybe a good idea. I
probably won't as I'm away much of the next month, and may as well wait
till I am back.
At this stage, solving the bug isn't that important to me, though it
may become so later. I'm mainly intersting in knwoing if I have found
You might also consider installing more capable firmware on your iPod to
make it support FLAC. http://www.rockbox.org/
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You might also consider installing more capable firmware on your iPod to
make it support FLAC. http://www.rockbox.org/
True...But, be aware that battery life will suffer considerably if you
use FLAC on your iPod or other portable player. In general, higher
bitrate files will
John Hernandez wrote:
True...But, be aware that battery life will suffer considerably if you
use FLAC on your iPod or other portable player. In general, higher
bitrate files will allow fewer hours of listening on a single charge.
I had not considered that. Why is it so? And is this true
for
Maybe I'm lucky, put I've installed 2 ReadyNAS X6 and they've all been
almost braindead to install.
Their are several models and I'm not aware of that many issues with the
X6 model.
I recommend the X6 model BTW, and once I installed 4 SATA drives, I
plugged it in, waited 4 hours and had a
I'm sure it's been pointed out by others, but the throughput of the
infrant X6 is way past the terrastation.
Tried that for Slim and what a dog.
Now running the X6 and happily streaming FLAC files all day long, wired
and wireless.
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Ok, this is weird, and I can't think of a single reasonable explanation
for this.
I populate my slimdb database (SQLite) from an external Access DB.
Everything works great, until I start browsing my db through the
SlimServer web interface.
I browse by artist (or search, for that matter) for
Now that I have a great library to feed my SqueezeBox, I'd like to use
computers in other parts of the house, where there are no stereo
systems, to access it.
My tunes are all stored as FLAC. Can I use SlimServer to stream them to
computers? I tried using the localhost:9000/stream.mp3 interface,
Why are you importing it instead of letting the server build it? It's a
relational database and is difficult to get the entries correct in all
the tables.
If it sees things it doesn't like in a record (it certainly does this
when the file location isn't found), it will remove the entry.
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It will drain battery life more than compressed music.
Reason, more harddrive access. A FLAC file will have the harddrive
spinning longer than an mp3 file that is smaller.
Because of this, pretty much any player will suffer reduced battery
life for playing lossless over a lossy format (given
Have you tried softsqueeze? It has the benefit of buffering (or not
buffering as the case may be) correctly since it uses the same protocol
as a hardware squeezebox.
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mschlack Wrote:
Now that I have a great library to feed my SqueezeBox, I'd like to use
computers in other parts of the house, where there are no stereo
systems, to access it.
My tunes are all stored as FLAC. Can I use SlimServer to stream them to
computers? I tried using the
Not sacrilegious at all; merely practical. You have done the right thing
by starting with flac, though, as that means you will always have a
digital lossless 'master' copy that can be used as the source for
whatever other digital music formats may become popular, without having
to rip everything
I'm copying over rather than letting it scan my tracks because my tracks
aren't tagged, but I do have a complete, centrally managed, clean db
with all my track information.
As for the notion that it's somehow difficult to populate a
relational database, that's just not true. This isn't a
I believe that when you play the track slimserver attempts to actually
read the tags at that point to try to maintain accurate DB info. Your
tags don't exist so it uses it's guess tags feature to attempt to
discern the appropriate tag info from your directory structure and
filenames. It then
Going a little off topic, I have also heard that DRM'd files use more
battery life than non-DRM'd ones. Never tested it though.
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Why is SlimServer renaming the tracks in the db?
becuase slimserver believes the file is not yet scanned, so scans for
metadata and populates the db with its data. Given that you don't
have tags, then what you have is probably the result of the
azinck3 Wrote:
I believe that when you play the track slimserver attempts to actually
read the tags at that point to try to maintain accurate DB info. Your
tags don't exist so it uses it's guess tags feature to attempt to
discern the appropriate tag info from your directory structure and
Thanks for the idea. I've done that already, but to no avail (the first
guess tags entry reads 0 after I delete all the entries and hit
Change).
- Jeff
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Thanks for the idea. I've done that already, but to no avail (the first
guess tags entry reads 0 after I delete all the entries and hit
Change).
that's odd, but 0 should fail to match anything. Thinking about
this more, the server will probably end
I've just upgraded my SB1 for an ebay-SB2. However, the SB2 does not get
a proper IP through my WRT54G's DHCP-server when using a wired
connection. Also assigning a static IP does not connect the squeezebox
with my network. In wireless-mode the squeezebox works fine.
I've searched through the
Slimserver also updates the database when it reads files.
Mine all have tags, so I don't know what it would do if the file has no
tags at all and guesstags is off.
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Due to rearangement of our furniture the Squezebox is now connected to
another switch on my LAN, and the issue has almost disappeared.
Sometimes the Squezebox does scroll a line or two after releasing the
button on the remote, but that is definately tolerable behaviour.
One must assume that it
Sorry for the frustrations! Can you please try deleting EVERYTHING in
C:\program files\slim server. After ensuring that is all removed,
please download the latest nightly build of slim server 6.2.2 from:
http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/nightly/latest/6.2.2/
Please make sure your music
Thanks Ross -
Just wanted to mention that just deleting the db file seemed to do the
trick for me.
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Thats great! Would you say the issue is resolved then?
Thanks for hanging in there, and thanks to all here for the wise words.
I'm still learning a lot from this wonderful online community!
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deleting the db solved the problem that i was having.
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Philippe Kehl has announced a How-To for running SlimServer on a Synology
Diskstation 101j in the German forum:
http://oinkzwurgl.org/software/slimserver/
The documentation is in English - might be interesting to users of that
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What kind of security settings are you using? WEP? WPA?
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I am running Slimserver 6.1 with SB2 and would like to upgrade to 6.2,
but I use AlienBBC a lot, and wanted to know the best way to upgrade
without creating lots of work? If I donwload 6.2 and install it, does
it realise that I had 6.1 loaded and does it see the changes I had made
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The upgrade procedure will depend somewhat on what OS are you using and
what version of AlienBBC ?
If you are using Windows, you could upgrade to AlienBBC 1.01 at the
same time as the install procedure is a lot better now but if you have
any custom Alienstream lists they should be saved.
For
I voted for this as well. Radio (audio) is the best way to enjoy
baseball. This would be a fantastic enhancement, and a sure way to sell
some Squeezeboxes to baseball fans.
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I actually would rather see an FM tuner with timeshifting -- think Tivo
for radio. This is obviously a
Daveo Wrote:
OK The plot thickens! If I disconnect the working sb3, then the bad one
will work, but I then get exactly the same problem with that one and it
will not work with the other box connected. Thanks for your help so far,
hopefully we're getting there, any ideas as to why this
You're right JJZolx, I'm not wed to using the SlimServer interface. I'm
looking for recommendations for a player that will play FLAC. I did
find one called Ashampoo, of all the names, and it's not bad. But WMA
and other obvious ones don't seem to support FLAC.
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It would help to know what platform you're on, but assuming it's
Windows, here are a few options:
- SoftSqueeze (Java-based, included in the slimserver package)
- foobar2000
- WinAmp
- squeezeslave, probably partnered with a front-end like Moose
BTW, streaming to
I like foobar2000.
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If I browse on sqeezebox, only a few stations will play. But if I log
on to the server with the web interface, most stations will play -
through the sq3. I can access shoutcast fine.
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I have been using the same static IP - it just stopped working with
shoutcast only. With DHCP it works fine. Even tried a bunch of
different DNS addresses with no luck. I wonder why this is a problem.
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i've started to see a few posts like this. I am having the same
problem. but here's my deal:
2 SB3's, one works fine, other exhibits the 1 song problem
server is XP box running 6.2.2
SB firmware is 41 - before that i was running 6.2.1 28...
I just upgraded server and firmware today (4/17)
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